The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ... that hard-working individuals throughout history have always wanted their glass of beer? Well, this most ancient document – like all ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old cylinders used by accountants. The earliest known writing system is thought ...

Students in a Near Eastern Studies First Year Seminar try their hand at creating replicas of cuneiform tablets ...

Before cuneiform, however ... Cale Johnson, professor of the history of knowledge in the ancient world at Freie Universität Berlin. Johnson was not involved in the new study.

The history of human writing is being rewritten ... The earliest known writing system is thought to be Sumerian cuneiform, which grew up around the region of present-day Iraq, dating from about ...

Among these digitized artifacts of the Oxford University museum is a fascinating piece that has intrigued scholars and ...